1.3 WebMaker rules

 

Figure 1.1 WebMaker rules control the conversion

WebMaker was initially designed by CERN, creators of the WWW itself, to provide a tool for the rapid exchange of scientific information. WebMaker takes a FrameMaker document or book, translates each paragraph or character tag to a set of HTML commands according to paragraph translation rules, and creates a web of WWW documents.

WebMaker is configurable. You can modify existing rules or create new rules that define the HTML translation for each FrameMaker tag. You can save these translation rules to use when you have changed the FrameMaker document source or to use on other documents of the same design. To tune the WWW display, you change these conversion rules, just as you change FrameMaker tags to tune the printed version of a document.

The WebMaker conversion rules use WML, the WebMaker Language. WebMaker includes libraries of translation rules that cover common styles and serve as examples of the use of WML.